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I've noticed that the beech baron with full flaps applied, or any, will pitch really easily, often screwing up my landing. Is there any way to keep that from happening?

Do you have your props set to fine pitch?

maybe slow down the approach? Are you using full flaps, or proper settings for the aircraft?

Are you adjusting trim as needed?

Look at your Baron's flap settings. If you go faster than the flap setting says so your plane will pitch up.  ;)

What type of joystick are you using? What about other airplanes ie. the King Air?

Also take a look at how you are flying your approach. You should be using pitch for glide slope and throttle for airspeed. Carrying too much speed can cause what you describe. Too little and handling is sloppy. Another thing to look at is how you are executing your flair. Ideally you should be leveling off a few feet off the runway, cutting power and holding it in the air until you settle down onto the runway. Leveling off too early will result in too much nose up and you might get a tail strike. Level off too late and you may bounce.

If you are doing everything right and the airplane is still too sensitive in pitch then take a look at your joystick and/or your sensitivity settings. All the default airplanes seem to be very sensitive in pitch with the Mooney being most sensitive. A sensitive joystick can exaggerate this tendency. I had a Logitech stick that made the sim almost unflyable until I set the sensitivity way down.  Later when got a Saitek stick I had to reset the sensitivities back up. The Logitech stick had very little travel so all control surface movement had to be made within an inch or so. The Saitek has several inches of travel which spread the control surface movement over a couple inches. The ideal setup is a yoke. Can't afford one myself at the moment but if you can it can make flying a lot more realistic.